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McMillenville silver boomtown
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head cents, cartridge cases from the 1882 fight, mining tools, 1870s bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1876-1886 silver boomtown
Founded around the 1876 Stonewall Jackson silver discovery, it reached about 1,000 people with adobe saloons, dance halls and a 20-stamp mill by 1880. An Apache attack in 1882 hurt the town and it was a ghost town by 1886.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
open mine shafts, remote
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